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by ibgeek 2y ago
Most universities publish a high-level breakdown of their expenses through the government IPEDS database. For teaching-focused institutions like mine, a vast majority of the money is spent on salaries. We are committed to keeping class si
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by ibgeek 3y ago
That helps. Thanks! Giving the programmer control over the checkpoints make sense. Also, limiting it to “workflows” (not necessarily entire programs) and requiring that these be deterministic makes sense. I did some working with Folding@H
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by ibgeek 3y ago
I love the idea, especially from reproducibility and debugging standpoints. It seems like there would be a significant performance hit, even if doing this on a single machine. If the application does external I/O, it seems impossible t
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by ibgeek 3y ago
That's quite a list of impressive improvements from the team. Kudos!
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by ibgeek 3y ago
TIL thanks!
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by ibgeek 3y ago
I was hoping that the blog post would actually spell out examples of problems. Is it just me or have there been a lot of shorter blog posts on HN lately that are really no more than an introduction section rather than an actual full articl
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by ibgeek 3y ago
This is absolutely correct. For public universities, the amount of state funding hasn't kept up with the increase in the number of students. While tuition at private institutions have also gone up, so has the amount of financial aid (
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by ibgeek 3y ago
Adding to this: we should be looking at the actual amount paid by students have receiving financial aid. Analyses of tuition - average financial aid show that the actual amount paid has been relatively flat at private institutions. A lot o
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by ibgeek 4y ago
This is a neat project. The documentation could be clearer, however. I was interpreted the phrase "create a cluster of thousands of nodes in seconds" to mean that it offered a significant speed up in initializing real clusters.
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by ibgeek 4y ago
I wish the article addressed integration with seaborn and other libraries. I’m sure Polars can do most of what I want in isolation, but I’m not sure how well it integrates with everything else.
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by ibgeek 4y ago
Ah! Okay, that’s what I was missing. I found the blog posts on using malloc and free from D. I knew the GC could be disabled, but I wasn’t aware of how practical it was to manually manage memory. Thanks!
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by ibgeek 4y ago
Honest question: as a GC’d language, D seems to occupy the same niches as Go, JVM-based, and CLR-based languages rather than that of C++. Wouldn’t it be more accurate to compare to them than C/C++? Am I misunderstanding something?
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by ibgeek 4y ago
Yes, the “sticker” price is going up but the average cost has not gone up nearly as much. Most private schools have a discount rate for tuition that applies to most students. Compare figures 1 and 2: https://media4.manhattan-in
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by ibgeek 4y ago
Can you expand on which scheduler you swapped out? OS? Spark? Something else?
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by ibgeek 4y ago
Can you describe some use cases? The only one that comes to mind is powering dashboards. That said, do you support persistent tables or time travel? (E.g., accessing the contents of the view as it was at time t). If not, how should a sit
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by ibgeek 4y ago
Very cool work! I really hope this develops a community behind it!
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by ibgeek 4y ago
People who major in CS/math are usually great data engineers but terrible data scientists. They don’t understand how to ask questions the right way, experimental design, how to evaluate the evidence. They are often more focused on th
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by ibgeek 4y ago
A stats class won’t teach you that either. You probably want to look into a research methods or similar offered by a Sociology department. If you want to see how to apply stats to the real world, social science is your friend.
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by ibgeek 5y ago
The Motivation Myth https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B06ZYFR2CL/ref=tmm_kin_swatch... First Things First https://smile.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00V1XGKJK/ref=tmm_kin_swat...
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by ibgeek 5y ago
There seem to be blog posts on "why we chose language X" nearly every week on HN and most often X tends to be a language that is not widely used. How do people manage to get any real work done using languages that do not have larg
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by ibgeek 5y ago
There are some nice insights and engineering ideas in here. Thanks for writing this and sharing!
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by ibgeek 5y ago
Hmm... your post is useful for others who are considering Mattermost -- certainly may help others who have similar priorities. That said, I think you could have made the same point without being negative about other product. You aren&#x2
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Why Not Erlang? The Lack of Onramps(discretestates.blogspot.com)
54 points by ibgeek 12y ago|50 comments
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Big Data (Alone) Won't Save You(discretestates.blogspot.com)
2 points by ibgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by ibgeek 13y ago
I'm a computer science Ph.D. student who works with that software that runs on the supercomputers. Yes, the code is bad, but no, it is not slow. In fact, the people (often not computer scientists) who write it are often really, reall
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by ibgeek 14y ago
There's a company called Software Carpentry ( http://software-carpentry.org/ ) that runs workshops for scientists but they might do the same for other programmers or have an idea of who might.
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by ibgeek 15y ago
This post compares Octave, not MATLAB. Similar languages, but completely different implementations. I'd bet that if it were tested in MATLAB, it'd be much faster.
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by ibgeek 16y ago
Am I the only one who sees this as Google Wave Redux? I mean, they even hired the guy who created Google Wave.
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by ibgeek 16y ago
Keeping the business may be to your advantage. Stipends at graduate schools are often around $25k/year, so your business would allow you to make the same amount of money with almost no effort. Since they are often funded out of professors'
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by ibgeek 18y ago
Computer Science is a super easy major, imo. I would suggest that people at least double-major in math or something else to stretch their mind.

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